South Plaza Island

Travellers’ Top Galapagos Experiences

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Here at Insider’s Galapagos we have been asking travelers who have been to the Galapagos Islands what their favourite experience was – we think it’s a great way of inspiring other travelers who are planning a trip. Here we pool their answers to give you our top Galapagos Experiences!

Galapagos memories

  • “Visiting Kicker Rock [located off the coast of Isla San Cristobal], snorkeling on Isabela (we got to swim with turtles and penguins). We loooooved Tortuga Bay [on Santa Cruz]”. (Miriam Ventimilla, Galapagos land-based tour).
  • “Our favourite island was Isabela. We preferred the laid back, quieter atmosphere there to Santa Cruz.” (Annie Crowley, Galapagos land-based tour).
  • “I loved the contrast of the lava formations with the beautiful bright green and red plants on South Plaza. Isabela was beautiful, and a cruise that visits it lets you see so much incredible variety of terrain and animals. The hikes were just amazing at every turn.” (Lisa Hartland, Galapagos Cruise Archipell II).
  • “I loved snorkeling. Seeing hammerhead sharks was amazing.” (Myriam Gallegos, Galapagos land-based tour).
  • “Top three…Kicker Rock, Volcan Chia [Isabela Island] and the Highland tour [Santa Cruz Island]. Swimming/snorkeling with the white sharks, tortguas and the sea lions was priceless”. (Lynn Min, Galapagos land-based tour) 
  • “Discovering the nature and the wildlife, and swimming in the amazing Pacific Ocean.” (Cécile Clavel, Galapagos land-based tour). 

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Darwin Finch

Scientists make unprecedented Galapagos discovery

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Scientists have made an unprecedented discovery in the way that the diet of Galapagos birds has evolved.  A team of scientists from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies spent three years studying the diets of Galapagos land birds. The results of the research, which was carried out over 12 islands, was published in the March 2015 issue of Nature Communications.

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Hotel San Vicente

Responsible tourism, Galapagos style

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With thousands of visitors each year, it is inevitable that human activity threatens the Galapagos Islands’ delicate ecosystem. The good news, however, is that there are some very simple ways to minimize your footprint.

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Sea lions in the Galapagos

Google re-visits the Galapagos Islands

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Google Maps will once again pay a visit to the Galapagos Islands.

The web mapping service is collaborating for a second time with the Charles Darwin Foundation and the University of Cuenca, Ecuador, in order to collect 360-degree images of the islands. This is Google’s second time in the Galapagos: a Google Maps team visited the islands in 2013 to test the Google Maps’ Street View technology. The resulting images were launched in January 2014.

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